Fundamental Limit on ``Interaction Free'' Measurements
In ``interaction free'' measurements, one typically wants to detect the presence of an object without touching it with even a single photon. One often imagines a bomb whose trigger is an extremely sensitive measuring device whose presence we would like to detect without triggering it. We p...
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| description | In ``interaction free'' measurements, one typically wants to detect the presence of an object without touching it with even a single photon. One often imagines a bomb whose trigger is an extremely sensitive measuring device whose presence we would like to detect without triggering it. We point out that all such measuring devices have a maximum sensitivity set by the uncertainty principle, and thus can only determine whether a measurement is ``interaction free'' to within a finite minimum resolution. We further discuss exactly what can be achieved with the proposed ``interaction free'' measurement schemes. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:ae6cd13a-b457-46ec-9c38-8ee9a3031c352022-03-27T03:42:29ZFundamental Limit on ``Interaction Free'' MeasurementsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:ae6cd13a-b457-46ec-9c38-8ee9a3031c35EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford1999Simon, SPlatzman, PIn ``interaction free'' measurements, one typically wants to detect the presence of an object without touching it with even a single photon. One often imagines a bomb whose trigger is an extremely sensitive measuring device whose presence we would like to detect without triggering it. We point out that all such measuring devices have a maximum sensitivity set by the uncertainty principle, and thus can only determine whether a measurement is ``interaction free'' to within a finite minimum resolution. We further discuss exactly what can be achieved with the proposed ``interaction free'' measurement schemes. |
| spellingShingle | Simon, S Platzman, P Fundamental Limit on ``Interaction Free'' Measurements |
| title | Fundamental Limit on ``Interaction Free'' Measurements |
| title_full | Fundamental Limit on ``Interaction Free'' Measurements |
| title_fullStr | Fundamental Limit on ``Interaction Free'' Measurements |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fundamental Limit on ``Interaction Free'' Measurements |
| title_short | Fundamental Limit on ``Interaction Free'' Measurements |
| title_sort | fundamental limit on interaction free measurements |
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